TAME FISH
Some of the fishes in the aquarium of the Loudon Zoo aro very tame, 'lho gurnards not onlv eat out of the keeper's hands and suck his fingers, but jostle one another for the privilege of being lifted out of the- water into the air. Mr Hamish Maclaren, writing in the ' Spectator ' some years ago on the subject of tame fish, stated that he knew a boatman at Crete who had trained an octopns to retrieve coal and other spoil of wrecked ships from the sea bottom. But Mr Msclaren admitted that most of the people to whom lie told the full story of the accomplishments of this octopus seemed to regard it as a fish story. And he himself seemed to have some doubts regarding the story told him by a friend about an old lady at Oxford who kept a shrimp alive in a wash basin for 17 years, which fed out of her hand when she called.
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Evening Star, Issue 23864, 19 April 1941, Page 3
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162TAME FISH Evening Star, Issue 23864, 19 April 1941, Page 3
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